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That which is worse, their owne
Pope (who cannot, as they teach, erre in a poynt of doctrine as Pope)
calleth her expresly Deam. _Pet. Bembus_ in his epistles written in
Pope _Leo 10._ name, _lib. 8. epist. 17._ printed at _Strasburg an.
1609._ that which is worst of all, in their most approued Bible: they
translate Gen. 3. 15. _ipsa conteret caput tuum_: she shall breake thine
head, although (as their owne Iesuit [ae]Ribera confesseth honestly) the
Hebrew text, the Chaldee paraphrase, the translation of the Septuagint,
and all good Latin copies reade ipse conteret, he shall bruise the
serpents head, applying it to Christ, according to that of Paul, The God
of peace shall tread downe Satan vnder your feete, Rom. 16. 20. by this
euidence you may see that the gunpowder crue praise not God in the

saints, nor the saints in God: but on the contrarie the saints as God.
[Sidenote y: _Tit. de sanct. inuocat._]
[Sidenote z: _See D. Fulke in 1. Tim 2. 5._]
[Sidenote aa: _Bellar. de sanct. beat. cap. 17._]
[Sidenote ab: _Apud Magdeburg. Cent. 10. Coll. 275._]
[Sidenote ac: _See Gospell Annunciat._]
[Sidenote ad: _Chemnit. exam. Con. Trident. part. 3. pag. 151._]
[Sidenote ae: _In Habacuc. cap. 1. num. 32._]
Againe these S. Peter men (and as I haue warrant to terme them on this
day _Salt Peter men_) erre from the true meaning of our text, because
they doe not praise God in sanctis eius, in his saints: but dishonour God
in sanctis eorum, in saints of their owne making, vsually praying vnto
some who were no men, and to many who were not holy men. It is
doubted by the two great lights in their glorious firmament, Bellarmine
and Baronius, whether there were euer any such man as S. George, or
such a woman as S. Catharine. Cardinall Bellarmine _lib. de
beatitudine sanct. cap. vlt. §. respondeo sanctorum_ doth acknowledge
that they worship certaine saints whose stories are vncertaine, reputing
the legend of S. George apocryphall according to the censure of Pope
[af]_Gelasius:_ and Cardinall _Baronius ecclesiast. annal. Tom. 2. ad
an. 290._ according to the impression at Rome, fol. 650. as also _de
Martyrologio Romano, cap. 2._ confesseth as much of Quiriacus and
Iulitta, declaring plainely that their acts are written either by fooles or
heretikes, and in his annotations vpon the Romane Martyrologie 23.
Aprill, he taketh vp Iacobus de Voragine for his leaden Legend of our
English S. George, concluding in fine, that the picture of Saint George
fighting with a Dragon is symbolicall, and not historicall. If the
Scripture be true [ag]_whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne_: then
assuredly these men (as [ah]Paul speaks) are damned of their owne
selues in their owne conscience, who (notwithstanding all their doubts)

pray still in their publike seruice, [ai]_Deus, qui nos beati Georgij
martyris tui meritis & intercessione lætificas, Concede propitius, &c._
An Idoll as Paul affirmes, 1. Cor. 8. 4. is nothing, Ergo, the Papists in
worshipping S. George which is nothing, commit (euen themselues
being Iudges) abominable Idolatrie.
[Sidenote af: _Can. sanct. Roman. dist. 15._]
[Sidenote ag: _Rom. 14. 23._]
[Sidenote ah: _Tit. 3. 11._]
[Sidenote ai: _Missal. Roman. ex Con. Triden. decret. restit. in festo
Georgij._]
As they worship some who were no men, so many who were not
[ak]holy men, as a reuerend [al]Doctor of our Church accutely, _Non
martyres domini sed mancipes diaboli_: the Souldiour who peirced
Christs holy side was a Pagan,[am] neither doth any storie which is
authenticall speake of his conuersion, and yet they worship him vnder
the name of S. Longinus, or Longesse, March 15. Papias (as
[an]Eusebius and [ao]Hierome report) held the heresie of the
Millenarians, and yet he is honoured as a saint in the Romane Calender
vpon the 22. of Februarie. Becket was a bad subiect in his life, and no
good Christian at his death, in that hee commended himselfe and the
cause of his Church vnto S. [ap]Denys and our Lady. Yet S. Thomas of
Canterburie was honoured at Canterburie in the daies of popish
ignorance more then either the worlds Sauiour, or the blessed Virgine
his mother: in which relation I appeale to the records of that Church, as
also to the very stones vnder his shrine worne with the knees and hands
of such as came thither to worship him. Boccace reporteth how one Sir
Chappelet a notorious Italian Vsurer and Cousoner came to be
honoured as a Saint in France. Sanders among them is a saint, albeit he
liued in plotting, and dyed in acting rebellion against his gracious
Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth of famous and blessed memorie. Nay
Dauus is Diuus, Saul is among the Prophets, pater personatus, father
Parsons all the daies of his life was a perpetual Martyr, as his